Overheard in the Art World

We’re in Soho on Tuesdays, the Lower East Side on Wednesdays, Chelsea on Thursdays, Bushwick on Saturdays. We go to openings, art fairs, auctions, performances, lectures, galas, member events, after-parties. (Oh the afterparties!) WE are the New York Art World, though we do travel, so we’re really everywhere.

The art world spread its wings over Manhattan these past few weeks, taking over warehouses, piers, churches, and an island when the Frieze fair graced us with its presence and attracting those gossiping, traffic-inducing, ill-informed celebrity “collectors” when the Metropolitan Museum of Art rolled out its red carpet:

“They should make the celebs take the subway.” (regarding the traffic jam near the Met tonight).
—overheard on Twitter (@debrahampton)

“Let’s walk through and then go back through in reverse to take pictures so if we get kicked out, we’ve already seen it.”
—overheared at Punk: Chaos to Couture members’ preview at the Metropolitan Museum

Him: “I’d buy that piece in a heartbeat but I don’t know about the unfinished wood.’
Her: “But that’s the whole piece.”
—overheard at Janet KURNATOWSKI gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

“In my high school there was a group that were called the alternatives, but they all looked the same.”
—overheard being said by one of the performers in Tino Seghal “This Situation” (2007) at the Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal

“I don’t know how I feel about my selfie right now.”
—overheard at the Museum of Modern Art in the room with Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

“Play that song about selling coke.”
—overheard at Creative Time gala at the Domino Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

“Why are there so many mirrors?”
—overheard at the 2013 Frieze New York art fair

“We need to find some love in here for Dan Colen even though he’s a self-centered spoiled skater punk.”
—overheard at the 2013 Frieze New York art fair